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  1. Katie Spotz '08 soon departs on her solo row across the Atlantic. She's raising money for safe drinking water. See http://rowforwater.com/
  2. A BuildINSULATE! workshop, sponsored by Progress Energy, will be held on the Warren Wilson campus Dec. 4-6. See http://tinyurl.com/ykdupzh.
  3. The Warren Wilson College Folk Choir opens for Chuck Brodsky Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. at White Horse Black Mountain. See http://tinyurl.com/yhrn8ks.
  4. What are you thankful for as Thanksgiving draws nears? Share your thoughts at http://tinyurl.com/yzzja9y.
  5. Asheville will soon have a 2nd Warren Wilson alumnus, Gordon Smith, on City Council; former WWC staffer Carl Mumpower was not re-elected.
  6. The weather looks terrific for Open House on Saturday and the campus is looking forward to hosting prospective students and their families.
  7. WWC counselor Anne Lundblad finishes miles ahead of everyone in the 24 Hours of Boulder race: http://tinyurl.com/ylxu24u.
  8. WWC's mountain bike team finished in the top 3 (D-II) in the national championships for the 7th consecutive year: http://tinyurl.com/yj2ew3h
  9. Life in the WWC EcoDorm is featured in the Sept. 27 issue of The New York Times Magazine. Article & slide show: http://tinyurl.com/ydqtqs5
  10. Congrats to MFA faculty member Heather McHugh, one of 24 recipients of 2009 "genius grants" from the MacArthur Foundation and 8th from WWC.
  11. A farewell to Franklin Tate, who contributed greatly to WWC service-learning for many years, happens Friday from 2-4 p.m. at Ransom House.
  12. Matt Mittan's popular "Take a Stand" program on WWNC 570 AM makes a stand at the Garden Cabin from 3-6 p.m. on 9/10. Welcome back, Matt!
  13. It's all but official: fall-semester headcount is 951, including 11 taking an Outward Bound semester. And we have enough beds on campus!
  14. Triad Day, WWC's distinctive start to the academic year, has arrived with more undergraduate students a part of it than ever before.
  15. Service Day is off and running, with 400 students, faculty and staff fanning out to sites from the Swannanoa Valley to the Cheoah River.
  16. For the third year in a row, WWC is one of the Sierra Club's "Coolest Schools." See Sierra magazine's honor roll: http://tinyurl.com/kt5s2v.
  17. New students are settling into their dorm rooms as Orientation Week moves full speed ahead. The far-ranging Service Day happens Friday.
  18. MFA student Dwayne Betts has a Dispatch titled "From Prisoner to Poet" in the Atlantic, where he interned in '07. http://tinyurl.com/qu3xau
  19. Busy Tuesday afternoon on campus with Convocation and an Open House at the LEED Platinum EcoDorm. New students arrive in a few days.
  20. Rebecca Rudicell '05 is doing groundbreaking research on simian immunodeficiency virus in chimpanzees (SIVcpz). http://tinyurl.com/lvxo49